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The Seventh Well: A Novel מאת Fred Wander A novel of total absorption, a heroic achievement, and one—despite the modesty of its author—destined for literary transcendence. He grew up on the street, a high school dropout. In 1938 he left his mother and sister behind in Vienna and fled on foot to France, where later...

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The History of Love: A Novel מאת Nicole Krauss The illuminating national bestseller: "Vertiginously exciting…vibrantly imagined….[Krauss is] a prodigious talent."—Janet Maslin, New York Times A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widow...

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A New Approach to Sight Singing (Fourth Edition) מאת Sol Berkowitz A time-tested classroom performer! In this text the authors place sight singing in the context of musicianship as a whole, offering readers a coordinated body of carefully graded melodies, duets, and short pieces for voice and piano while reinforcing their comprehension of tonal and post-tonal harmo...

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The Seventh Well: A Novel מאת Fred Wander "Shockingly brutal, profoundly transcendent." --Seattle Times Already considered a classic of Holocaust literature, The Seventh Well is a novel of total absorption, a heroic achievement, and one des...

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The Spanish Inquisition מאת Cecil Roth No other organization for religious persecution ever equaled the Spanish Inquisition in intensity, scope, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. From its establishment in 1478 until its abolishment in 1834, no one expected its tribunals, which relentle...

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Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst מאת D. W. Winnicott One of the most gifted and creative psychoanalysts of his generation, D. W. Winnicott made lasting contributions to our understanding of the minds of children. His ideas have influenced the diverse psychoanalytic schools of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Hans Kohut. But his reach e...

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Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind (Third Edition) מאת Michael S. Gazzaniga Three leading figures in the field of cognitive neuroscience provide an engaging, narrative driven overview of this path-breaking field. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, the authors balance cognitive theory, with neuroscientific and neuropsychological evidence to re...

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The Muslim Discovery of Europe מאת Bernard Lewis The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brillian...

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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations מאת Christopher Lasch When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new ...

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The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs: A Novel מאת Irvine Welsh "A family saga, a revenge fantasy, a Twilight Zone-esque parable, and, most importantly, a very fun read." —Entertainment Weekly This story of two men locked in a war of wills that threatens their very existence is vintage Irvine Welsh. Troubled restaurant inspecto...

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Body-Mind Psychotherapy: Principles, Techniques, and Practical Applications מאת Susan Aposhyan An alternative therapy bringing both emotional and physical processes into the therapeutic process. Body-Mind psychotherapy takes the basic tools of mind-body integration (such as body awareness, breath, touch, and movement) and joins them with an awareness of emotional development. The...

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Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis מאת Ian Kershaw The climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time. The New Yorker declared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as close to definitive as anything we are likely to see," and that promise is fulfilled in this stunning second volume. ...

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Crime: A Novel מאת Irvine Welsh Irvine (Trainspotting) Welsh brings his brand of mayhem to the glitzed-out, drugs-and-danger state of Florida. In the wake of a nasty child-murder case, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox of the Edinburgh PD has suffered a full-scale breakdown. He's been placed on leave f...

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Anatomy of Anorexia מאת Steven Levenkron Anatomy of Anorexia is a tremendous tool for families: now more than ever, early diagnosis and treatment, and family participation, are crucial in helping the anorexic. Preeminent therapist Steven Levenkron demystifies this life-threatening disease and shows how the millions of girls and wome...

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The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (A Contract With God, A Life Force, Dropsie Avenue) מאת Will Eisner The legendary graphic novel and the sequels that launched an art form. WITH GRAPHIC NARRATIVE that "was closer to the writing of Bernard Malamud or Isaac Bashevis Singer than any comic art which had preceded it" (The Economist), A Contract with God, originally published in 1978, ...

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The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith מאת Patricia Highsmith The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith presents five of Highsmith's classic short story collections in a single masterful volume. Compelling, twisted, and fiercely intelligent, this landmark collection showcases Highsmith's mastery of the short story form. In a cruel twi...

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Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones מאת Erica Jong Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravished by her libertine stepfather. Fleeing to London, ...

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The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City מאת Patrick Blanc The secrets of plants that cling, grip, and climb, from the inventor of the vertical garden. Patrick Blanc, an artist with a green thumb, has created dozens of his admired botanical tapestries in public and private spaces around ...

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Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors מאת Lisa Appignanesi A brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history of the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800. This is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last two hundred years and how w...

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The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems מאת Martin Gardner No amateur or math authority can be without this ultimate compendium from America's best-loved mathematical expert. Whether discussing hexaflexagons or number theory, Klein bottles or the essence of "nothing," Martin Gardner has single-handedly created the field of "recreational mathematics." The...

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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders מאת Vincent Bugliosi A national bestseller—7 million copies sold. Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four o...

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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde מאת Audre Lorde A complete collection--over 300 poems--from one of this country's most influential poets. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 "Books to Remember" in 1997....

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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story מאת Diane Ackerman A true story—as powerful as Schindler's List—in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeeper...

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City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa מאת Adam LeBor A profoundly human take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, seen through the eyes of six families, three Arab and three Jewish. The millennia-old port of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, was once known as the "Bride of Palestine," one of the truly cosmopolitan cities of the Mediterran...

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Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage מאת Gyles Brandreth “Great fun to read; written with bouncy charm, but shot through with penetrating insights.”—Sunday Telegraph This is the first major biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh—both royal, both great-great-great grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but in temperam...

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From Wall Street to the Great Wall: How Investors Can Profit from China's Booming Economy מאת Burton G. Malkiel From the million-copy-selling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, the perfect guide to investing in the next economic giant. In From Wall Street to the Great Wall, Burton G. Malkiel and his ...

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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory מאת Brian Greene A new edition of the New York Times bestseller—now a three-part Nova special on PBS-TV coming in Fall 2003: a fascinating and thought-provoking journey through the mysteries of space, time, and matter. Now with a new preface (not in any other edition) that will review the enorm...

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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History מאת Stephen Jay Gould "His fourth volume of imaginative, witty essays...equals Gould's prize-winning The Panda's Thumb and The Mismeasure of Man."--Publisher's Weekly. Photographs....

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Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration מאת Felipe Fernández-Armesto "A brilliant and readable book...a rich study of humankind's restless spirit."—Candice Millard, New York Times Book Review Greeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new standard. Presentin...

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Love & Will מאת Rollo May "An extraordinary book on sex and civilization....An important contribution to contemporary morality."—Newsweek The heart of man's dilemma, according to Rollo May, is the failure to understand the real meaning of love and will, t...

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The Painter from Shanghai: A Novel מאת Jennifer Cody Epstein “A historical novel on a grand scale . . . a dark love story, a triumphant tale of survival.” —Maureen Howard Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River, through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China teeterin...

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The Complete How To Figure It: Using Math in Everyday Life מאת Darrell Huff An all-in-one compendium of easy techniques for all kinds of calculations, from personal finance to home improvement. Budgeting and personal finance, planning for retirement, buying a house, estimating travel and leisure expenses, estimating costs of home repair: modern life presents us with an arra...

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From Wall Street to the Great Wall: How Investors Can Profit from China's Booming Economy מאת Burton G. Malkiel From the million-copy-selling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, the perfect guide to investing in the next economic giant. It is no secret that China has the world’s fastest-growing economy. The trick is how ...

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Integrated Treatment of Eating Disorders: Beyond the Body Betrayed מאת Kathryn J. Zerbe An integrated approach to the treatment of disordered eating. A prominent psychiatrist in the field, Kathryn J. Zerbe builds on her landmark work in The Body Betrayed to provide a comprehensive approach to the outpatient treatment of eating disorders. A variety of strategies is present...

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Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth מאת Carol Rose We have always conjured up creatures never seen in nature, from flying horses and two-headed birds to fire-breathing dragons and enormous killer skunks, as well as fantastic distortions of our own image, from giants to nubile maidens. In these pages you will meet extraordinary beings from Hindu and ...

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Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography מאת Todd Brandow By far the most lavish, thoughtfully selected, and beautifully produced book of Steichen’s work. Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is unquestionably one of the most prolific, influential, and indeed controversial names in the hi...

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Will Eisner Reader מאת Will Eisner Four extraordinary autobiographical stories from a legend in American comics. A collection of brilliant short-story gems, including "A Sunset in Sunshine City"—an ode to memory and nostalgia inspired by Eisner's transition to life in Florida after his "retirement" in 1985. ...

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The Dreamer מאת Will Eisner An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics. A roman à clef about Eisner's early years in the thriving comics industry prior to World War II—featuring new annotations that reveal comics pioneers such as Bob Kane and Jack Kirby w...

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Transforming Trauma: EMDR: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Freeing the Mind, Clearing the Body, and Opening the Heart מאת Laurel Parnell The revolutionary new therapy to help heal trauma and relieve eating disorders, anxiety, and depression. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR(r)) has helped thousands of clients haunted by abuse histories or recent traumatic events. It also benefits patients who have not found relief ...

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The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould מאת Stephen Jay Gould The most entertaining and enlightening writings by the beloved paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and celebrant of the wonder of life. "Nature is so wondrously complex and varied that almost anything possible does happen....I rejoice in [its] multifariousness and leave the ...

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Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience מאת Martin Gardner Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. Here he muses on topics as diverse as numerology, New Age anthropology, and the late Senator Claiborne Pell's obsession with UFOs, as he mines Americans' seemingly inexhausti...

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Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life מאת Avinash K. Dixit The international bestseller—don't compete without it! A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outma...

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Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch מאת Dahlia Ravikovitch "[Ravikovitch’s] song is both ancient and new, and it is unutterably poignant." —Stanley Kunitz In poems about fathers and daughters, men and women, kings and their subjects, the precarious position of women and the plight of Palestinians under the Occupation, Dahlia Ravikov...

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The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia מאת Richard Overy "A book of great importance; it surpasses all others in breadth and depth."--Commentary If the past century will be remembered for its tragic pairing of civilized achievement and organized destruction, at the heart of darkness may be found Hitler, Stalin, and the systems o...

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Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing, New Edition מאת John Rousmaniere In August 1979, 303 yachts began the 600-mile Fastnet Race from the Isle of Wight off the southwest coast of England to Fastnet Rock off the Irish coast and back. It began in fine weather, then suddenly became a terrifying ordeal. A Force 10, sixty-knot storm swept across the North Atlantic with a s...

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The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion מאת Will Eisner A work more disturbing than fiction from "the father of graphic novels" (New York Times). "The ultimate illustration of how absurdly comical and cancerous The Protocols has been to mankind."—Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times Book Review The Plot, whic...

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Media Politics: A Citizen's Guide מאת Shanto Iyengar Media Politics encourages students to examine how the media affect American politics and how politicians influence the media in order get elected, stay in power, and achieve policy goals. Drawing on recent events and the most current research, including the work of Pr...

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The Overcoat: and Other Tales of Good and Evil מאת Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol With the publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842, Nicolai Gogol (1809–1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with as much right to happiness as anybody else...

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Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700 מאת Carlo M. Cipolla The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization. How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution? Clocks and Culture is a brief hist...

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The Age of Shiva: A Novel מאת Manil Suri "A stunning novel, proof that Manil Suri is a major storyteller of heart and intelligence." —Amy Tan The Age of Shiva is at once a powerful story of a country in turmoil and an "unflinchingly ...

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A Tranquil Star: Stories מאת Primo Levi The first English publication of seventeen classic Primo Levi stories marks the twentieth anniversary of his death. A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to ...

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Model Making: A Basic Guide מאת Martha Sutherland A primer for everyone interested in building models. Model Making is an introduction to the craft for students of architecture; landscape architecture; urban, interior, and theatrical design; or anyone who has the need or desire to make the large small. In concise instructions and nearly 200 charmin...

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The Complete Ripley Novels מאת Patricia Highsmith No lover of American literature should be without this stunning boxed set of all five Ripley novels. The Complete Ripley Novels—a first-time, boxed collection of the entire Ripley series—is a cause for critical and popular cele...

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Telling the Truth about History מאת Joyce Appleby "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist ....

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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends מאת Jan Harold Brunvand The definitive word on the subject from the dean of urban legend studies. We all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true—roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees—but have you heard about the ice man or the bullet baby? This comprehensive and compellingly read...

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Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities מאת Gene Combs W. Norton. Offers a fundamental understanding of the narrative approach to therapy and illustrates some of the potential applications of the technique. Based upon both narrative and social construction metaphors and the concepts of David Epston and Michael White. For therapists. ...

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Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine מאת Edzard Ernst “For anyone who has ever wondered about the scientific evidence for the effectiveness of . . . alternative therapies.”—Susan Okie, Washington Post Whether you are an ardent believer in alternative medicine, a skeptic, or are simply baffled by the range of services an...

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For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions מאת James R. Gaines "Gaines has a deft understanding of the Washington-Lafayette relationship ... [and] a knack for wielding substantial research with aplomb."—San Francisco Chronicle This book tells the story of the French and American ...

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The Glass of Time: A Novel מאת Michael Cox “Entirely wonderful . . . chock-full of revenge, romance, duplicity, concealed identities and murder most frequent.”—Washington Post Building on his haunting, superbly written debut, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox returns to a story of murder, love, and r...

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Constitutional Law and Politics: Struggles for Power and Governmental Accountability, Seventh Edition, Volume 1 מאת David M. O'Brien Now in its Seventh Edition, Constitutional Law and Politics remains the authoritative casebook for the study of Supreme Court decisions in political science courses. Ample primary source material includes case excerpts with introductions, headnotes, and Special Featu...

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Maurice: A Novel מאת E. M. Forster Written during 1913 and 1914, Maurice deals with the then unmentionable subject of homosexuality. More unusual, it concerns a relationship that ends happily....

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The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center מאת Charles R. Morris An over-the-shoulder look at a major heart surgery center, with gripping accounts from the OR to the boardroom. Americans now spend more money on hearts than on new passenger cars. To understand this remarkable trend, Charles R. Morris "embedded" himself...

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Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. מאת Jay Haley Milton H. Erickson, M.D. is generally acknowledged to have been the world's leading practitioner of medical hypnosis. His "strategic therapy," using hypnotic techniques with or without actually inducing trance, allows him to get directly to the core of a problem and prescribe a course of...

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The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom מאת Sandra Mackey Sandra Mackey lived in Saudi Arabia for four years, and as far as the authorities knew, she was simply the wife of an American doctor. But she saw things and traveled to places rarely viewed by any outsider, let alone a Western woman, and she succeeded in smuggling out a series of crucial articles o...

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Rick Sammon's Exploring the Light: Making the Very Best In-Camera Exposures מאת Rick Sammon How to capture and control light to make the best digital photographs. Light is the essence of photography. Follow master photographer Rick Sammon at dawn in Kenya or nighttime in Miami as he demonstrates how to ...

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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England מאת Carol F. Karlsen Confessing to "Familiarity with the Devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange Fits" and fueled an outbreak of witchcraft ...

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Identity: Youth and Crisis (Austen Riggs Monograph) מאת Erik H. Erikson Identity: Youth and Crisis collects Erik H. Erikson's major essays on topics originating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis. Identity, Erikson writes, is an unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. It deals with a process that is located both in the core of th...

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Someone Knows My Name: A Novel מאת Lawrence Hill "You feel you are turning the pages of history, the pages of truth."—Austin Clarke, author of The Polished Hoe Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom—and of the knowledge she needs to get home. Sold to...

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The Snowboard Book: A Guide for All Boarders מאת Lowell Hart A world-class instructor explains how anyone of any age--from confirmed skier to rank beginner--can quickly get in on the thrill of the hottest sport in the world. Full-color photos & close-up, detailed illustrations....

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The Principles of Mathematics מאת Bertrand Russell Russell's classic The Principles of Mathematics sets forth his landmark thesis that mathematics and logic are identical—that what is commonly called mathematics is simply later deductions from logical premises. His ideas have had a profound influence on twentieth-century work on logic and t...

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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries מאת Neil deGrasse Tyson “One of today’s best popularizers of science.”—Kirkus Reviews Loyal readers of the monthly “Universe” essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson’s talent for guiding...

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Diane Arbus: A Biography מאת Patricia Bosworth Diane Arbus—now the subject of a national retrospective and a forthcoming movie—was the archetypal artist living on the edge. Diane Arbus's unsettling photographs of dwarves and twins, transvestites and giants, both polarized and inspired, and her work had already become legendary w...

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Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet מאת Elaine Feinstein Although Ted Hughes ended his days as England's beloved poet laureate, his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. He never entirely recovered from the suicide of his wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, for which many have held his adultery responsible. In this insightful biography, the first written sin...

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People of the Whale: A Novel מאת Linda Hogan “Deeply ecological, original, and spellbinding. . . . [A] hauntingly beautiful novel of the hidden dimensions of life.” —Booklist, starred review Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated deci...

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Tremor of Intent: A Novel מאת Anthony Burgess From the author of A Clockwork Orange, a brilliantly funny spy novel....

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The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg מאת Robert P. Crease Great innovations in science and the people behind them. Philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in human history. Was Nobel laureate Richard...

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On Becoming a Novelist מאת John Gardner On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both fro...

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Korea: As Seen by Magnum Photographers מאת Magnum More than 230 full-color images by some of the world's most-renowned photographers. South Korea, with its craggy hillsides, gnarled trees, and ancient temples, is steeped in tradition yet, at the same time, is thoroughly modern—the tenth-ranking industrial ...

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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition) מאת Fareed Zakaria “A work of tremendous originality and insight. ... Makes you see the world differently.”—Washington Post A modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, The Future of Freedom is, as the Chicago Tribune put it, "essen...

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Lebanon: A House Divided מאת Sandra Mackey With a new introduction by the author, a seminal study of Lebanon’s past, present, and future. With the West’s economic and security interests increasingly at stake in the Middle East, it is impossible to ignore Lebanon—a nation in all ways divided and tormented by the interp...

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Ripley Under Water מאת Patricia Highsmith "Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."—Frank Rich Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art ...

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Nothing Like the Sun (Norton Paperback Fiction) מאת Anthony Burgess Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life. ....

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The Glass of Time: A Novel מאת Michael Cox Building on his "superb" (Washington Post) debut, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox returns to a murderous nineteenth-century England. Like its "beguiling" and "intelligent" (New York Times Book Review) predecessor, The...

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Abnormal Psychology, Fourth Edition W/CD מאת David L. Rosenhan When first published in 1984, Abnormal Psychology won widespread support and hundreds of adoptions for its innovative approach, which highlighted the psychological theories and treatments that best fit each disorder. In the new Fourth Edition, Martin E. P. Seligman and new co-author Elaine F....

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No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice מאת Judith Martin “Add No Vulgar Hotel to the list of books you must read before you come to Venice.”—Donna Leon This is the definitive book for managing an incurable passion for a decaying, water-logged village. Whether you alread...

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family מאת Annette Gordon-Reed Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the S...

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Crescent: A Novel מאת Diana Abu-Jaber "Abu-Jaber's voluptuous prose features insights into the Arab American community that are wisely, warmly depicted."—San Francisco Chronicle Thirty-nine-year-old Sirine, never married, lives with a devoted Iraqi-immigrant uncle and an adoring dog named King Babar. She works as a...

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Rick Sammon's Digital Imaging Workshops: Step-by-Step Lessons on Editing with Adobe Photoshop Elements מאת Rick Sammon Rick Sammon leads us through twenty step-by-step workshops on how to edit our photographs using the most popular imaging software available. Rick Sammon's Digital Imaging Workshops picks up where his popular Complete Guide to Digital Photography leaves off. The earlier boo...

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Scaramouche מאת Rafael Sabatini A masterpiece of historical Þction—and a ferociously gripping adventure tale. Set during the French Revolution, the tale of the man "who was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." This classic novel of swashbuckling adventure and sweeping romance is also a thought-provo...

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Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner מאת John Maxtone-Graham A magnificent tribute to the illustrious and ill-fated steamship. Normandie was unquestionably the most beautiful ocean liner ever built. The world’s largest at the time, she also became the world’s fastest. Her...

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American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill מאת Anne Sebba A frank account of the tempestuous life of the American mother of Britain’s most important twentieth-century politician. Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy in 1874, after a three-day romance. S...

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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (Norton Paperback) מאת Stephen Jay Gould In the sixth volume of essays from Natural History magazine, the nation's foremost science writer discusses environmental spoliation and the massive extinction of the earth's species. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour....

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T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life מאת Lyndall Gordon Lyndall Gordon's biographical work on T. S. Eliot has won many dramatic accolades. In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" (The New Yorker), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and sub...

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Oystercatchers: A Novel מאת Susan Fletcher "A stunning novel...profound, beautiful, and redemptive."—The Guardian Sixteen-year-old Amy lies in a coma. Moira, eleven years older, spends the evenings at her sister's bedside, telling the story her own life—her secrets, her shameful actions, and her link to t...

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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World מאת Simon Garfield In 1856 eighteen-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally discovered a way to mass-produce color. In a "witty, erudite, and entertaining" (Esquire) style, Simon Garfield explains how the experimental mishap that produced an odd shade of purple revolutionized fashion, as well as in...

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Letters to a Spiritual Seeker: A Nation's Struggle for Freedom מאת Henry David Thoreau "With quotable lines on every page, this is an important and affecting addition to the Thoreau shelf." —Booklist The writing of Henry David Thoreau is as full of life today as it was when he published Walden one hundred years ago. In seeking to understand nature...

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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis מאת Robert F. Kennedy The unique, gripping account of the perilous showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told her...

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The Stranger Beside Me: The Twentieth Anniversary Edition מאת Ann Rule Ted Bundy was handsome, charming, a brilliant law student, and on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, 1989, he was executed for the murders of three young women, having confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five more. This is the story of one of the most fascinating killers in ...

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Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson מאת William McKeen The famous inventor of Gonzo journalism portrayed as never before, both his charisma and his adventurous work. Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory "Fear and Loathing in Las...

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Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution מאת Jerome Charyn "A rollicking tale." --Stacy Schiff, New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice Johnny One-Eye is bringing about the rediscovery of one of the most "singular and remarkable [careers] in American liter...